The University of Texas has announced the creation of an eight-person search committee charged with helping athletic director Steve Patterson find the next Texas Longhorns football coach to replace Mack Brown.

All eight of the committee members served on the same committee that helped hire Patterson. Here are the committee members:

-- Steve Hicks, vice chair of the Board of Regents, one of the board’s athletics liaisons, and owner and executive chairman of Capstar Partners LLC, a private investment firm.

-- Robert Stillwell, member of the Board of Regents, one of the board’s athletics liaisons, retired partner at Baker Botts LLP and an original director of Mesa Petroleum Co.

-- Michael Clement, accounting professor, McCombs School of Business at UT Austin, and faculty representative to the Men’s and Women’s Athletics Councils.

-- Ricardo Hinojosa, United States federal judge for the Southern District of Texas, former member of the university’s Commission of 125.

-- Charles Matthews, former vice president and general counsel of Exxon Mobil, current president of the Texas Exes.

-- Robert Rowling, former member of the Board of Regents and owner and chairman of TRT Holdings Inc.

-- Charles Tate, chairman of Capital Royalty, former member of the executive committee of the university’s Commission of 125.

-- Pamela Willeford, former U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein and former chair of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.

Texas will also use the search firm Korn/Ferry to assist. That's the same firm used to hire Patterson.